Casimir of Pászthory

Casimir von Pászthory (born April 1, 1886 in Budapest , † February 18, 1966 in Wermelskirchen ) was an Austrian composer . His music, which is stylistically rooted in the Wagner - Strauss tradition, without foregoing his own creative stylistic elements, has largely been forgotten today. It experienced at least a partial renaissance in 2004 when the opera Tilman Riemenschneider was performed again on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of the city of Würzburg .

Life

Casimir von Pászthory was the son of a senior government official of the Royal Curia, who came from an old Hungarian family. His mother was the pianist Gisela von Voigt, who came from a German aristocratic family with origins in Hanover. As a former student of Franz Liszt she was to old age actively and played more than 84-year-old as part of a Liszt celebration in Budapest one of the piano concertos of the Master on its wings .

After his mother married August Göllerich for the second time , Casimir von Pászthory came to Nuremberg , where he attended high school. He then studied in Vienna at the juridical faculty, but focused mainly on studying music, especially the cello with Paul Grümmer . After extensive journeys that took him all over Europe to Asia Minor, he settled in Vienna, where he taught cello at the conservatory for many years . He also took part in the musical life of his time as an accompanist to his songs on the piano and as a conductor of his orchestral works.

His partner Dora Baubin, whom he married in 1911, took an intensive part in his artistic work and wrote the textbooks for the stage works “The Princess and the Swineherd” and “Tilman Riemenschneider”.

Pászthory was a member of the NSDAP . When Pászthory lost his apartment and possessions in Vienna as a result of the war in 1945, after a long stay at Lake Attersee , he moved to Salzburg in 1950 , where he mainly occupied himself with composition. In 1953 he was awarded the title of Professor by the Austrian President . For his eightieth birthday, the award of the golden ring of honor of the city of Salzburg was planned, but this could no longer take place. He spent the last days of his life in the Bergermühle in Wermelskirchen .

Works

Stage works

Operas

• The three just Kammacher. Musical comedy in two acts (three images). Text based on the story by Gottfried Keller by Dora von Paszthory. First performed at the Graz City Opera (February 6, 1932).
• The princess and the swineherd. Fairy tale opera in three acts (eight images). Text, freely based on Hans Christian Andersen, by Dora von Paszthory. - Vienna: Universal Edition 1939. First performed at the Nationaltheater Weimar in 1937. Further performances at the Salzburger Landestheater in 1955/56.
• Tilman Riemenschneider . Opera in two parts (eight pictures). Text by Dora von Paszthory (1942). First performed at the Theater Basel in 1959. An abridged version (ORF) is available.
• A Christmas music to Ludwig Thomas Christmas legend "Holy Night" for small orchestra, mixed choir, solos and a speaker (1944–48). World premiere at ORF, Upper Austria regional studio.

Ballets

• Arvalany. Dance game in five pictures. Book by Elza von Dohnanyi-Galafres . First performed at the Dresden State Opera (December 7, 1939). Further performances in Weimar and Chemnitz (1941).
• The Alder Hill. Fantastic ballet based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. First performed at the State Theater in Karlsruhe in 1936.
• Isbrand and Isigildis. Dance legend from the early Middle Ages. First performed at the National Theater Weimar in 1938.

Melodramas

• What Friedel in Christmas. Lyricist unknown.
• The way of love and death of the cornet Christoph Rilke, op. 1. Text by RM Rilke (1914). Has also been translated into French and has seen numerous performances.
• The wild swans. Text by H. Ch. Andersen (1937).

Songs

Orchestral songs

• Prayer of the splintered knight in the field (0. J. Bierbaum)
• Kind mother earth. 6 contemplative songs based on various texts for baritone (alto) and orchestra (1963). - Piano version: Wermelskirchen: Eva Molineus-von Paszthory 1972.

1. Kind Mother Earth (ancient Greek funerary inscription) - 2. Whether our death is according to (RR Källenberger) - 3rd Psalm - November 4th (wine lifter) - 5th level (Hesse) - 6. The leaves are falling (Rilke)

• The year. 12 chants based on poems by J. Weinheber for medium voice and large orchestra (1936–1937)

January 1 - February 2 - March 3 - April 4 - May 5 - June 6 - July 7 - August 8 - September 9 - October 10 - November 11 - December 12

• 5 songs in folk tone based on various texts for medium voice and chamber orchestra. - Braunschweig: Litolff 1936; Wermelskirchen: Eva Molineus-von Paszthory 1972

1. Im Volkston (Storm) - 2. Folk song from the Staufer era - 3. Lullaby in the open air (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) - 4. May, May (14th century) - 5. Tomorrow I have to leave here

• Sabine (Chansons d'automne). 7 chansons pour voix moyenne d'apres of the text by Paul Verlaine with accompagnement d'orchestre ou de piano. Translated into German by Dora von Paszthory (1928–1929). First performed on Wiener Rundfunk in 1933. - Wermelskirchen: Eva Molineus-von Paszthory 1972

1. Lost Wise Men (Ariette oubliee) - 2. Autumn song (Chanson d'automne) - 3. Psalm (Psaume) - 4. Serenade - 5. Come on, let's dance (Dansons la gigue!) - 6. Farewell (Adieu) - 7. The sea (La mer)

Piano songs

Cycles

• Advent songs. 2 songs based on texts by Arthur Fischer-Colbrie. - Wermelskirchen: Eva Molineus-von Paszthory

1. Forest Advent (1942) - 2. German Christmas Forest (1951)

• 6 old German minne songs

1. Far high on that mountain alone (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) - 2. Unter den Linden (W. von der Vogelweide) - 3. How I rested there! (W. von der Vogelweide) - 4. This star in the dark (that of Kürenberg) - 5. Only one can give me joy (around 1100) - 6. Folk song (around 1200)

• Hands. A song cycle based on poems by Rilke, Storm, Hesse, Dora von Paszthory, Martha Hälscher and Bierbaum for baritone and piano

1. You! Hands - 2. In the folk tone - 3. When the little child's hand 4. Please - 5. Close both my eyes - 6. When you are my hand today (1939) - 7. Husbandl

• Japanese legend. 13 songs based on poems by Japanese and Chinese poets (adapted by Klabund and Hans Bethge) for a female and a male voice

1. The fragrant arm- 2. On the bank - 3. Trust (1960) - 4. Over the heath (1960) - 5. Request to the gods - 6. Unification - 7. Farewell 8. The tired soldier - 9. Die Abandoned (1924) - 10. Abroad 11. Once again - 12. Restriction - 13. Duration alternating

• 6 songs based on poems by Hesse for high or medium voice and piano. - Braunschweig: Litolff 1936; Frankfurt: LitolffjPeters 1972

1. Don't be sad - 2. The letter - 3. Please - 4. Tramp hostel 5. In the fog - 6. My happy love

• 6 songs from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn"

1. My treasure is fine - 2. The Butzemann - 3. Counting verse - 4. The black blackbird - 5. From a children's fairy tale (king's daughter, youngest) 6. The maid at the cradle

• 8 songs based on texts by Rilke. - Wermelskirchen, Frankfurt: LitolffjPeters 1972

1. Advent - 2. You! Hands - 3. Around the many Madonnas (1928) - 4. Pieta (1928) - 5. A woman's fate (1928) - 6. The prisoner - 7. You want to choose a page for yourself - 8. You, my holy solitude (1927 )

• 4 songs based on poems by Storm

1. Elisabeth - 2. Close both my eyes - 3. Carnations (1944) - 4. Im Volkston (1936)

Single songs

• The letter (Hesse, 1932)
• Christiane (Hermann Claudius, 1951)
• The Fuji-Yama
• City children (Karl Borromäus Frank, 1955)
• I poor drip (Terange. Translated from the Japanese by H. Bethge)
• I hear a sickle rustle
• Smile (Grete Körber)
• Song of two old people (Hermann Claudius, 1940)
• My happy love (Hesse, 1934)
• My princess went Mayward (Freiherr von Appel)
• Longing (Ricada Huch, 1950)
• Don't be sad (Hesse)
• Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
• Early spring (Bierbaum, 1937)

Instrumental music

orchestra

• Thijl Uilenspiegel. The bondage and liberation of one people. Symphonic poem based on the novel by Charles de Coster for large orchestra (1933). First performed in Munich.

Chamber music

• Quartet for 2 violins, viola and violoncello, op.25 (1951). World premiere at ORF, Vienna.
• Piano trio. First performed in Linz.
• Sonata for violoncello and piano, op. 13. - Wermelskirchen, Frankfurt: Litolff / Peters 1936. First performed at the International Music Festival in Frankfurt am Main (with Ludwig Hoelscher ).

literature

• Hans G. Schürmann, ' Casimir von Pászthory - Leben und Werk , in Casimir von Pászthory (editor: Günter Brosche ), Vienna: Austrian National Library 1986
• Casimir von Pászthory - catalog raisonné based on the complete estate in the music collection of the Austrian National Library, edited by Lieselotte Theiner, in Casimir von Pászthory (editor: Günter Brosche), Vienna: Austrian National Library 1986

Web links

• Works by and about Casimir von Pászthory in the catalog of the German National Library
• Cello Sonata (audio files)

Individual evidence

1. ^ DIE ZEIT on the Würzburg performance of the opera Tilman Riemenschneider
2. ↑ herself a children's book author: Dora von Paszthory, God's miracle: Blümelein. With pictures by Eva von Paszthory-Molineus. "Oldenburg publishing house formerly Gerhard Stalling Verlag ", Oldenburg 1950
3. ↑ The standard